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CaseyAbell:
The show got a few good reviews around the web. For instance:

http://www.nynewsday.com/entertainment/tv/...manheadlines-tv

It also got some nice comments on the GSN boards. Don't know if I'll watch, though. I'm not enough of a video gamer for a two-hour investment.

Besides the Monday rerun that Chris mentioned, there are also reruns at 4:00 PM Wednesday 3/24, 6:00 PM Friday 3/26, 4:00 PM Saturday 3/27 and 9:00 PM Sunday 3/28, according to the sched on the GSN site. So it's not like you won't have a chance to see it again.

PeterMarshallFan:
From the part that I saw [ColecoVision to King's Quest], it stunk. Tony Hawk comes off as annoying and arrogant to me, and the jumping from 1988 to 1979 was pointless.

cmjb13:
I didn't see the whole thing, but did they mention Dragon's Lair at all?

adamjk:
It was good, though no mention of the N64 was made.

ezbidder:
Warning: Spoiler content






I liked the documentary.  They covered 3 main streams:
- early arcade games up to the Pacman era, and then also Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat era.  Not enough coverage here, arcades were definitely short changed in this documentary.

- console gaming from the Odyssey through the Atari right up to the X-Box (no mention of the Jaguar, Turbografix 16, N64 but images were shown of N64 games) - coverage pretty good.

- consumer personal computers (Commodore 64 and Apple, and then a bit about the IBM PC) - a bit less coverage than needed - left out the VIC 20, Trash 80, hardly any Macintosh coverage, left out Atari ST and Amiga, both major players in the mid 80's.

Other areas I thought were lacking:

- not enough on handhelds.  They mentioned Gameboy, but left out Atari Lynx
- too much on the Quake/Doom era
- not enough on the history of Midway and Williams.

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